I was the painter for Masi from 1980 until Haro took over a few years back.
The bike pictured appears to be one of the original Nuova Strada's imported by Masi Worldwide circa 1986. Built with Columbus Aelle R by Billato.
It has the original fork.
Many of these framesets had the original vinyl decals removed and were sold to Euro Asia Imports to clear them out. Euro Asia sold them to whoever. Some of those people had them repainted as Masi Gran Critieriums.
I've still got a bunch of the decals for this model!
I'd email the owner, but his email address wasn't apparent from the fixedgeargallery posting...
Jim Allen the CycleSmiths Ranchita, CA 760 782 2737
brian blum wrote:
> Looks like it was crashed with no fork. At least the frame was not trashed
> . Brian in Berkeley
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:22:43 -0600
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Subject: Re: [CR]fixie thing has gone too far!
>> From: johndthompson@gmail.com
>>
>> Darcy Warn wrote:
>>
>>
>>> stuff like this makes me sad, but I'm preaching to the choir. Are Masi'
>>>
> s co
>
>>> mmon trash in California?
>>>
>>> http://fixedgeargallery.com/
>>>
>>> OK, it mostly steams me because Italian bikes are so rare in Idaho-I th
>>>
> ink
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>>> I've seen three in ten years...
>>>
>> In this part of Wisconsin, anything from the on-topic era is gas-pipe,
>> or worse.
>>
>> --
>> John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
>> Appleton WI USA
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